ANTIQUE CHINESE INKSTONE

[NaytanDova]

Got this recently. But I have no idea what the base says? Wondering if it is a maker and date or a maker and place maybe? What dyou say?

[889]

Please stop buying Chinese stuff until you've studied the field a lot more.

 

You're just throwing your money away.

 

一模一样：

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/hot-sell-new-free-shipping-hot-sell-new-antique-old-Handcrafted-Solid-silver-copper-Miao-Silver/32903811460.html?spm=2114

 

(Moulded. Can use the mould to make "silver" ones, or clay ones, etc.)

[NaytanDova]

I haven't fully bought it yet. I did do some more research and I left it  xD thanks though

[Shelley]

Aren't there some rules about the use of antique, vintage, classic and the like?

 

I know here in UK a motorbike is veteran if it built before 1915 and after as vintage but there is also the loose classification of classic, anything built before 1981 and for UK road tax purposes Historic its before 1977.

 

How can they just say something is antique without any provenance?

[Tomsima]

I'm still wondering what the first character is before …寶齋, 難道是榮？Looks something like 琴 but with a 罒 at the top?

[889]

墨寶齋 正宗

 

http://jd.cang.com/1111364.html

 

And when someone posted this on a Chinese board, the advice was, "非石，更非端石。现代作品，请勿再买," or pretty much what I said.

 

https://bbs.artron.net/thread-2894420-1-1.html

 

This is probably fired from a clay like 澄泥, long used for making inkstones.

 

https://baike.baidu.com/item/澄泥砚

[NaytanDova]

Antique refers to being over 100 years old in England at least. Technically this listing on eBay isn't legal, it's more of a common mistake though. I'll tell the guy at least